Polish prime minister says understands need for new migrant quota

WARSAW, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Polish Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz
said on Tuesday that she understood that the European Commission
would need to agree quotas for migrant intakes as the number of
refugees coming to Europe has exceeded expectations.

In July, Poland agreed to accept 2,000 migrants from Syria
and North Africa by 2017 as part of an EU plan to relocate
refugees around the bloc and mitigate the migration crisis
facing its southern states.

"I understand that now we are not talking about 2,200 since
a bigger number of refugees is coming and that this distribution
will be reconsidered. A new declaration will have to be
presented by Poland," Kopacz told a press conference, without
elaborating on the higher figure than in July's agreement.

"We will be assessing our possibilities but we will approach
the matter responsibly," she added.
(Reporting by Agnieszka Barteczko; Editing by Hugh Lawson)